Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-10-22
TELEGRAPH.

ONtE HOWL
 By reduced expenditures, Incresse1 taxable values and the gradual lessen ing of the tax rate. the territory is now absolutely on a safe and heslthful fnlU- cisl basis The agricultural possiOili- tles of Arizona with proper irrigation continues the report. can scaJCeiy Le overestimsted. Its live stock interests ore in fiOurishing condition. Taken in aggregate the mining interests Of Ari- zona are on s safe aud paying b1siE. Governor Zuli0k recommends that the sixteenth and tTenty-six.h sections oi school land in every township to sold and the proceeds be applied 10 the school purposes Of the territory. As to the Indians. the report states that of all the tribes in the territory, the Nsvsjos are the most prosperous, intelli- gent and enterprising. and doubtless the healihiest tribe ID the UBits1 States. They number about I5.GO0 souls end ore increasing. I. is estimgte d they owa 2O,OC0 horses and ore million sheeT. They farm extensively and raise good crops.
 The Apaches occupy the San Carlos reservation, containing about 2,5oS coo acres Of the best agricultural land ID -Ae territory. As q race, the report saya they are lBzy and ihieyish and seeming ly incapable of civilization. As log as the Apache Indians are suiTe;ed fo re- msIn within the borders of the territory, continues the governor, just ss long Sill the peace of Arizona be insecure E1d her progress retarded.
 WAsHISGToS, October 17-AttOTney' General Garland to-day, made Q notion before the supreme court tO advance one of the several cases against the Central
 Pacific railroad. They are brought Co | declare void palents iO railroads In Ssn
 Joaquin and CalayerGs counties, Cali | fornia, winch involves the ownership oi
 homes of about tEree hundred fami-
 li,s.
 NEW YORK. Ocs, l7-C1roner EidERn
 was notified late this afternoon that 0
 building had csved ID or the corner Of | One Hundred and Fifteenth street and | F.rsl Av-nue. AmbUlances were sent to
 the scene immediately. < number of people Hre reported buried iI the Iu.ls
 md five bodies, it is stated, have been
 recovered.
 l SAN FRASCIsco. October l7-C. w. TrImble VAS to-day appointed railway
 clerk on the Albuquerque and Los AB-
 geles line ID place of '. J. Sanchez, d.
 clined.
 SAN FRASCIsCo. October I7-The U. l $. steamer Thetis arrived from New l York to day. She made the trip Il one
 hundred and fiftyfve dsys, and G';sr retitting wall be detailed 10 guard tAs
 Alaskan sealing interests the mex. sea-
 sOr.
 | SACRAMENTO, October I7--GoveTuor Waterman today com mIssIoDs3 Colonel
 F. W, Sheehan a. bTiSaGier general oi | California, vice John T. Carey.
 SAN FRAScIsCo, October 1.-The
 members of the committee organized with William D. English a. chairman, | express themselves Es confident iLsr sufficient inducements cluid bs Olss1d tO induce the uG:io.e! democratic col Yen,iOn 10 induce lLeIn sO select ihis cIsy as the place for the nGtlOnsl convention. The committee expect 10 be able io erect wigEGns especially fer the puE?Cse If the convention takes tlace E-sr, uGi thot is impossible It- Aechal c's pavilion woald be used. l. is ssa.,d several men of wealth stand reed! tp s.5-cubs E5eI-
 ally tg carry uUt the pTo.ec. ot the CoL- mIttee.
 VIsALn. October I7-The United ] States land Ofiics has bCea Overrun i5- l day with dli1Es on lien lands. Largest days business ever transacted iu tL5 | office. Sixty filings were entered and more are waiting their turn.
 WAsHISGTON. Oct. IS.-The officials at the War Department Fea3 wIth sur prise dispatch gEsch stated bat grand jury ct Tucson. AFiz -s, had l found indi:tments agEias: Cor uiulo ard his followers, and that sa effort would be ma 10 take hIm back for tri,L Ge- rOnlmo and seyents of tLe most ylc- ious members of his band are still seld .n captivity st Fort PieEeue. Fia. While, Rs Secretary Endicott expresses it, c rcnImo Is a white elephant ou ,he hLIl- of the government; nothing further conld be learned of the purposes oi tbg administration. The conditions vith Geronimo at the tIme of his surrender to General Miles, there Is the highest oiiiGial authority for saylug shey will be strictly adhered tc. Gerunimo's con duet since his banishment Co Fort Pl1k- ebs has been so exemplary that g few months ago his wives were permi!tl- to join him and he appears to te coutcr e with his surroundings There he v.ll remain for the present, or at least uu- til ihe President chooses 70 make n far ther disposition of his peisop. It is claimed, however, that under TO clrcum- stances will he te delivered into the custody of the ArIz7rl guthoritief. or ! treated other than R p:IsCucr of war.
 Now YORK, October IS.-The French | steamship. BTittCEniR, which arnvei oa the l3th just from MlrseI!lcs aud Naples | Eud has been held by thg Ecailh official | at ihe upper quGrentlTe. for observation. | has been sent down Co lower gCsrsntiue | four cases of cholera hby-og been fo1uG | aboard her. The kr.tsnIs is sister Co | the Alisia. which brought !L. choierG l here several weeks sgc.
 NEW YORK. Oct. I8-A sporting raper has received the following ca1. 1Srsu from London: Charley Mitchell a.s posted Q forfeit. sE6 issued a challeneg to fight John l.. Sullivan. London prz- ring rules. for five hundred pounds Ter side. Should, however, Sullivan not accept Miiche!Vs challenge. anybody else can hGvs a match. but not for less than five hundred pounds per side.
 WAsHINGToN. October lS-Tke sa- nual report of Caleb W. West, governor of Utah Territory estimates the pOpula- ton oi the Territory st nearly igo hun dred thousand. and the assessed tExsbie valuation of property Gt over twenty five million dollars.
 The governor thinks congress should wait until the actions of ;be Mormon people gre in accordance with the moral sense of the country and christian civil izatlon and the territory IS placed n tbe advanced position n would have attain ed but for the past attitude of those | who gre now asking the boon of state hood.
 ATLANTA. October lS-IEe president and party were escorted 10 the capitol ( this afternoon where they were received ( by Governor Gordon, visiting governors, , and federal and state officers. The yuests then proceeded to the exposition 2 where a national salute wss } fred ss they entered the gate. II. ". irady extend, q welcome to the Prcsi- ( lent m @ brief but eloquent address.
 PHILADELPHIA, October lS-A lock t ut involving six thousand hands will ' ,e inaugurated this morning by the q